Equality Of Opportunity - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

critical things we do in developing courses is to introduce people who aren't larger than life, with whom students can identify. Very early, we built cases around women and entrepreneurs of all types and all ages. The View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

restructuring opportunities or divestitures or even, more recently, public-to-privates. But I think increasingly what happens in our industry—and in Europe more recently than in the U.S. —is that private equity has become the long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

to worthy applicants, venture philanthropists proactively find opportunities and develop them. "A big part of the model is first seeking out the entrepreneur and the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants were given a situation involving a global context (strategizing about the future of a foreign wire service and advertising at an international sports competition). When asked to brainstorm in a local context (a US newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

Opportunities abound for large companies looking to expand into Latin America. But risks remain, and the development of better capital markets is needed to attract more investment, according to panelists at... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization

opportunities—though the process of globalizing is often more driven by need, circumstance, and opportunity than by carefully made strategic plans. The panelists view globalization as an unending path.... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

versus strangers) might affect their approach to splitting the equity (both the equality of the split and the timing of the split) and how the split might affect both the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

tool? Paul Healy: The tool was first developed to show students who were taking BAV how discounted cash flow (DCF) and earnings-based valuations work and can be reconciled. Over time, based on feedback from students about the value of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

work at the same firms? Do you know the same people?” These questions tend to narrow the worldview of investment opportunities to people who look like the investor. Make the pitch personal. “Share your... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

08 Dec 2015
Research Event

Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

Initiative's Creating Emerging Markets project, in which business leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America discuss their experiences growing businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

“Most of my kids’ playmates are Finnish, and they have a Saturday morning school where they learn the Finnish language,” he says. “There are probably 8 to 10 organizations catering to the Finnish community in Boston.” All that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

here. Within the past few weeks, a decision by Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart (and, by implication, the Walmart board), has given us an opportunity to judge the Roundtable’s new criteria. (Worth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

are situations in which you can reposition the bargaining in a way that is not gendered. For example, if I see an opportunity for leadership, and believe that in that position of leadership I can attain... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green... View Details